Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search

That worked great, Paul. Thanks so much for posting this! If you already have a “regular” Family Search account, go to the link below. About halfway down, there is a link ‘click here to open the registration page. That brings you to a registration page. Do not type in all your

[LegacyUG] Sources question

Hello, I have recently purchase Legacy and I've watched the beginners video. My question relates to entering a birth certificate. It's one document but contains a lot of information for the child, mother and father etc. I have entered this once as a master source. Then do I cite a master source

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources question

Good luck Darren, I remember when I first started and wish I knew about this users group then. I won't reply as I will leave it to the more experienced users and I have a lot to learn myself. Happy hunting. Shirley NZ - Original Message - From: Darren Walker To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources question

Use the source clipboard. Look in the help for details. Bert - Original Message - From: Darren Walker dar...@darrenw.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday 23 March 2012 9:29 Subject: [LegacyUG] Sources question Hello, I have recently purchase Legacy and I've watched the

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources question

Darren, You do not say which country you are from, and as I am only really familiar with the English birth certificates I will answer in relation to them. However, my practice would give the answer of “yes” to your question. The English BCs give the name, date of birth, place of birth, name of

RE: Re: [LegacyUG] Pesky location list

I have never used Washington DC as a location so I looked to see howit would geocode. Fairfax Village, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States Michele From: David C Abernathy [mailto:da...@schmeckabernathy.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:02 PM To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

I don’t do anything in all caps either. When I am writing a formal report, I do follow the modified register system which puts the surname in all small caps (2 points smaller than the rest of the text) the first timeadirectline ancestor is introduced. michele From: David C Abernathy

Re: [LegacyUG] Pesky location list

Until the organic act, the District was made up of two counties and three towns Washington and Alexandria counties, and the communities of Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria so until the mid 1870s it plots out just as it would for any other location with the District in the state slot. Of

Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact?

I put the various date sources in my events list and source it there.  That way all the dates show on the timeline until I get a concrete date, then I put the correct date on the date line (I use the best of the vague dates until then on the date line) and put all the other various date

Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar glitch

Geoff Rasmussen wrote: I messed up this morning and removed the wrong recording. It's all back to normal now. Sorry 'bout that. You're forgiven, Geoff! When I was an IT tutor and did something in error I used to tell my students that I occasionally made a deliberate mistake because I didn't

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources question

Ron Ferguson wrote: This is not as onerous as it looks if one uses the Source or Event Clipboard It came as rather an unpleasant shock to me to find recently, when I was temporarily unable to access deluxe Legacy, that the Source Clipboard is not available in basic (free) Legacy. Well worth

Re: [LegacyUG] For those that use the to-do list, what is the best way to do this?

Michele Lewis wrote: I use the to-do list a lot. I need to way to distinguish between things I need to do and things I have done and I am just waiting for the results. For example, I might have a to-do saying that I need to get a marriage license for someone but I haven't actually mailed off

Re: [LegacyUG] Families for Android 1.5.0.

Is this an upgrade that I can now download, or a whole new purchase?-Original Message- From: Malcolm Green Sent: Mar 23, 2012 5:44 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Families for Android 1.5.0.

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

As I am producing reports for myself and other rellies (who couldn’t care less about, nor even know about the existence of, “standards”) I always capitalise surnames – when I enter data and when I type any sentence. This carries over to letters / emails I write in the course of my research.

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

When you enter the surname in the Surname field, the program knows very well that it's a surname. They should all be entered in standard Initial Caps. I'm surprised you're not getting flags for Potential Problems when you enter a surname in all uppercase - unless you have that option turned off.

RE: [LegacyUG] For those that use the to-do list, what is the best way to do this?

I had thought of that but I do those setting now for direct line projects (high priority) and collateral line projects (low priority). I guess I could just change my thinking on that. There is also an option to tag to-dos and I could use that but I need to know other reasons why one might

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

There have been a bunch of replies but nothing to answer the question. Wish I knew how to answer you because I think I actually understand what you need. Maybe you could call someone or redirect your email straight to Geoff? I was actually interested in the answer. Good luck! Kathy On Thu, Mar

RE: [LegacyUG] Families for Android 1.5.0.

Updates to apps are free, providing you use the same app store login as for your original purchase. Malcolm Green From: mbstx [mailto:msz...@mindspring.com] Sent: 23 March 2012 13:52 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Families for Android 1.5.0. Is this an

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

More importantly, the all caps refers to shouting in communication(s) only. It is utterly absurd to classify using capital letters in a genealogy program as shouting. Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 11:31 AM To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

Per the register and modified register systems, the names that do have surnames in all caps have them in small caps (2 points below the main font). This looks so much better than all caps. Does Legacy have this option to have this in reports? I hand type my reports so I don’t know.

RE: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact?

How interesting, Scott! Michele . From: Scott Hall [mailto:seh0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:10 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact? I'm similar to Michele in that I keep all official sources, but I track my

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

Thanks for saying that, Ron. This Asa Brown thread actually got started because I noticed that Legacy is still using USA in its Asa Brown sample file, that is shipped with Legacy, and not the new standard United States. I should have created a different thread when I mentioned the ALL CAPS, a

RE: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

Yup. You can simply use the windows shortcuts for special characters. For example, if you hold down the ALT button and type 0246 using the NUMBERS PAD on the right side of the keyboard, you will get a small case o with umlauts. (I can't type it in here because I am using plain text). I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact?

I'd like to interject here You might not be planning at the moment to publish, but you do need to think about the future use of your Family File. I lead a Legacy User Group and have spent the past three months teaching the group how to fix something just like this. The group member who

Re: [LegacyUG] For those that use the to-do list, what is the best way to do this?

You could tag those To-Dos which are pending a response or which require your action. The Tagged To-Dos which are still open would then give you a list of the items still waiting for a response or those which you need to work on depending on how you use the tag. You do not even have to edit the

[LegacyUG] nFS treatment of Living persons

Hi - I just tried nFS linking to it via my Legacy database. In the filters, I selected Suppress living, which did eliminate living persons in the list. BUT, one person in the list who comes up with a match has all of her children displayed, including those who are still living. How do I prevent

RE: [LegacyUG] For those that use the to-do list, what is the best way to do this?

Thanks, Brian. I do think this is what I will do. It will make seeing what I have done and what I need to do much easier. Michele -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:48 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

RE: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact?

I will say this, the one benefit of having to clean up your file is you will find a lot of errors you didn't even know were there. That is what I found when I cleaned up all my stuff after switching from FTM to Legacy about 8 years ago. Michele -Original Message- From:

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

Legacy does have the option to include Surnames in Uppercase but it does not apply the convention you mention of using a font that is two points smaller than the report font. Surnames use the same font size as the rest of the report body. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation

Re: [LegacyUG] For those that use the to-do list, what is the best way to do this?

I like to work from reports created through the search function. Maybe I'm looking for no birth dates or no surnames or . . . I tag the list. Then I could work through the to-do list and put in the repository and notes. When I go to a repository it is difficult then to work through priorities

RE: [LegacyUG] nFS treatment of Living persons

If I am understanding you correctly, you are seeing the living people over in the right pane (the box that shows what is actually up on FamilySearch)? I tried this with my own file. I always suppress living on my filter. I selected my grandfather. He still has 3 children living. On the

RE: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

Actually, using plain text doesn't prevent the use of special characters. ALT+0246 will display as ö Paul -Original Message- From: Michele Lewis [mailto:ancestor...@gmail.com] Sent: March-23-12 10:30 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar glitch

Where's the Like button for your response Jenny? I love it. Yes, that's what was in my mind too. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation ge...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Jenny M Benson

[LegacyUG] Townships - fitting them into the locations?

If there is just a township, I put it in the place of the town. But I like to know which township the city/town is in. Right now I am adding the township in parenthesis after the town/city name. I haven't yet experimented with printing out reports since my focus is on research. Will I run into

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources question

Darren: I would suggest that you watch the “Watch Geoff Live” webinars. Although I don’t see one on birth certs, there are sessions on adding marriage and death certificates and the concept is very similar. You’ll pick up a lot of tips from those that will get you off to a good start with

Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact?

Scott: To each his own, but I sincerely hope that Legacy users don’t jump on this particular bandwagon. Years ago I was an FTM user and the sourcing capability was so weak that I too put everything in Notes. On switching to Legacy I found that converting those notes to proper sources was a

RE: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

Weird. I tried it and I only got an empty box. Ööö Now it is working so it must have been operator error :) michele -Original Message- From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:32 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] umlauts

Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact?

Those of you critical of my approach are right -- it will be a lot of work to bring the source information into the proper format. I will say that even if I had all sourcing in (as I do for events like census), I still would use my note system as I want to track where differences are -- and see

Re: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

I found an easy way to include 'non-English' letters in my Legacy names for people/places. Since the letter strip only holds 8 characters 4 caps and 4 smalls, I create a strip with as many as I need by pasting those at the bottom of the typing in the 'signature section'  of my document. I have

Re: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

welcome to the club. Rich From: Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:10 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters Weird.  I tried it and I only got an empty box.  Ööö  Now it is

Re: [LegacyUG] cancelling a mistake

Thanks - I've now managed to open the backup file successfully but when I first opened Legacy today, it opened the file I am trying to lose because of the muddled sources. It seems to me that I have a number of Legacy files listed as C:\Users\... Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet

RE: [LegacyUG] nFS treatment of Living persons

Yes, it's the left pane I'm talking about. There is a possible match in the right pane that has no children information. My concern is that if the person who entered the info in the right pane looks for a match he/she will see the living people in what's my left pane. Is that possible? M

Re: [LegacyUG] cancelling a mistake

On 2012/03/23 23:13, Elizabeth wrote: lose because of the muddled sources. It seems to me that I have a number of Legacy files listed as C:\Users\... Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ but I can't migrate any nearer to them than Microsoft\Windows - in other words, I

Re: [LegacyUG] cancelling a mistake

I don't know why any of your Family Files would be in the Temporary Internt Files folder. Any files there can be ignored - they're just files that are stored there when you browse web pages. Your data files should be in the c:\Legacy\Data folder. Look there. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support

RE: [LegacyUG] nFS treatment of Living persons

NO! That isn't possible! No one can see what is in that left pane but YOU. The only way others can see it is if you upload the info to nFS and the way you do that is you click on the little arrow thing to the left of the fact on your side (left) of the screen. If you don't do that, no info

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

Like I said Sherry, it is force of habit to type them that way. I was typing family history reports long before I began using a computer to automate much of the work. I don't get problem warnings (so must have turned off the option). I know Legacy knows it is a surname - I'm not doing it for

Re: [LegacyUG] umlauts - German letters

Michelle, If I remember correctly you can change to the german alphabet and discover where the extra characters are at.  Since I use the French (accents); Norwegian, Swedish, Danish vowels and the Spanish and German letters also, I had all added to the bottom of  a preset form to cut and paste

[LegacyUG] still can't use software

Hi everybody:I have been having serious problems with my Legacy 7.5 software for days now.I emailed Brian at customer support yesterday. I had asked him:"Jim at your customer support had me send him my family file on Monday. He said that I had to download Legacy again and restore a previousbackup.

Re: [LegacyUG] nFS treatment of Living persons

Another way to think about it is, others can only see what is in the RIGHT pane because only that data is at nFS. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.comwrote: NO! That isn't possible! No one can see what is in that left pane but YOU. The only way others can

RE: [LegacyUG] Webinar glitch

Jenny, When I tutored IT, I had something similar that covered everything. Computers don't make mistakes, any errors occurred between the chair and the keyboard! I think people put professionals on such a high pedestal, they don't think we can make mistakes as well. We may make less of them,

Re: [LegacyUG] Do you add everyone with surname or just confirmed links?

Tami: It really depends on your goals. I document all people of my surname that lived in certain areas. For example all Kemp families that lived in Ireland and for the surname: Garcelon or Starbird - I save everyone of them that I can find. Why? Like you say - I've found that sooner or later I